microcystin

WXYZ - 02 Aug 2014
Drinking the contaminated water with microcystin can cause a number of symptoms including nausea, vomiting and dizziness - similar to the flu - that can show up within hours of consumption. “You may think you just have a stomach bug or ate some bad ...

Auburn Citizen - 11 Mar 2018
"What are we going to do?" The state Department of Health's answer? Don't drink untreated surface water, algal bloom or no. The most common toxin found in harmful algal blooms in central New York is called microcystin. Contact with it and the blooms ...

Toledo Blade - 16 Mar 2018
But to George Bullerjahn, it's about the peninsula where the world-renowned amusement park sits. The area is roughly where Lake Erie's two most evil forms of algae — microcystis and its lesser-known counterpart, planktothrix — usually meet. Although ...

Daily Republic - 16 Mar 2018
The city will still issue a public health warning when microcystin toxin concentrations exceed the minimum acceptable level in only one location. A warning can also be issued when there is "pervasive cyanobacterial scum present." Last year was the ...

Toledo Blade - 08 Mar 2018
Phosphorus from agricultural fertilizers is widely blamed as a primary nutrient for microcystis algae that have turned western Lake Erie into sickly green soup during several recent summers. The algae release microcystin toxin, the concentration of ...

Islands' Weekly - 13 Mar 2018
Following an outbreak of cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) on land, scientists observed the death of 21 sea otters. Their deaths were attributed to a microcystin resulting in liver failure – something that has never been observed occurring in the ocean ...

Florida Sportsman Magazine - 04 Aug 2017Microcystin is a component of what's lovingly called blue-green algae, or other confusing names like cyanobacteria. Or, my choice: poisonous slime discharged on us from special interests inland. Supposedly, a “recent” study at Ohio State University ...

Auburn Citizen - 06 Mar 2018Microcystin is the most common toxin in Cayuga County lakes' blooms, and it can cause nausea, skin irritation, respiratory problems and even liver failure if consumed at high levels. The research about what causes toxicity is preliminary and divisive ...

Toledo Blade - 04 Sep 2017
The Lake Erie beach is under a public health advisory because of high levels of microcystin found in Lake Erie, along with high levels of E. coli bacteria. This advisory has no effect on Toledo drinking water, which remains clear, according to the ...

The Daily Standard - 09 Mar 2018
Every year since 2009, the state has issued advisories for the 13,500-acre recreational lake due to unsafe levels of microcystin algal toxins. The toxins can harm the liver and cause gastrointestinal symptoms and rashes. Since then, toxin-producing ...

Toledo Blade - 06 Aug 2017
He and Mr. Kennedy said the research is more relevant now that microcystin is on the rise globally. Climate change and poor land use are cited as probable reasons. The toxin is carried primarily by an algae called microcystis, one of Earth's oldest ...

Michigan Radio - 07 Mar 2017
The guidelines will be voluntary. Health officials in Ohio and Michigan already test for microcystin. Shannon Briggs is a water toxicologist with the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality. She says local health officials in Bay and Monroe ...

Toledo Blade - 26 Aug 2017
The city's water-quality dashboard rates the water from clear to watch, caution, preschool advisory, and do not drink. The caution stage would mean microcystin has been detected in tap water but the level does not mandate an advisory. Toledo officials ...

The Olympian - 05 Dec 2017
This time, lab results from a sample collected on Nov. 30 show high levels of microcystin, according to a news release from Thurston County. “Microcystin is a liver toxin which accumulates over time,” the news release stated. “High accumulation of this ...

Auburn Citizen - 24 Sep 2017
A previously undetected toxin called homo-anatoxin was discovered in Owasco Lake after harmful algal bloom water samples were taken from the Indian Cove and Buck Point areas, Cayuga County Public Health Director Kathleen Cuddy said in a press release ...

Toledo Blade - 30 Jun 2017
There's never been a clinical way developed for physicians to make those diagnoses. Many people have gone to area hospitals complaining of symptoms such as nausea, headaches, stomach cramps, vomiting, and diarrhea since Toledo's 2014 water crisis, when ...

Iowa State University News Service - 08 Jan 2018
Much of their research will focus on microcystin, the toxin produced by cyanobacteria. Exposure to high levels of microcystin can cause gastrointestinal problems, asthma-like symptoms and skin irritation in humans, according to the Iowa Department of ...

Toledo Blade - 23 Sep 2017
Two test results Saturday showed 1.8 and 11.8 parts per billion of microcystin in raw river water, both below the 20 ppb threshold the World Health Organization uses for avoiding all contact. City tap water, which is pulled from Lake Erie, remains safe ...

Toledo Blade - 22 Aug 2016
Algae-produced microcystin levels in Lake Erie — the toxin that fouled municipal water for three days in 2014 — have remained low near Toledo's drinking water intake crib, according to a review of daily tests performed by city chemists since late ...

The Bellingham Herald - 26 Dec 2017Microcystin was found but far below the level considered unsafe by the state. So the Whatcom County Health Department is recommending that the Bellingham Parks and Recreation Department take down signs that warned people and their pets to stay away ...